Back then, particularly at a time when luxury goods had been in such short supply for so long, it was the height of cool to be so precise in your demands. And it follows in all the products that he demanded - you know, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right drinks, the right food, the right restaurants. When Sean Connery turned around and asked for a cocktail shaken but not stirred, it was cool to have that precision, that sort of absolute perfection in taste. On Bond's precise tastes, and why they were seen as cool '50s and '60s, when the books were written and were thriving, and nowadays where so many perceptions have changed. one of the interesting things is trying to bridge this astonishing gap between the. And perhaps some of the attitudes in the books were cooler then - even the violence, maybe, these days we think twice about. and I don't think many people would admire that these days. James Bond smoked I think about 20 to 30 cigarettes a day.
The first one that springs to mind is probably smoking. On the ways in which Bond isn't so cool anymore Horowitz tells NPR's Robert Siegel how he tackled a modern Bond storytelling challenge: What was cool in the 1950s and '60s, when Fleming published his books, can seem geriatric today. Trigger Mortis is a new Bond novel set just a few weeks after the end of Fleming's Goldfinger. But he wrote his latest book, Trigger Mortis, on assignment from the estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Anthony Horowitz has written novels, movies and television series, including the detective show Foyle's War.
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